Country : Canada (Quebec) Label : Circum Disc / Tour de bras Genres and styles : Contemporary Jazz Year : 2024

Brûlez les meubles – Folio #5

· by Frédéric Cardin

They are two iconoclasts of (jazz!) furniture: Éric Normand on bass and Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière on guitar, hence the (memorable) name Brûlez les meubles. But since any good job of undermining a certain cushy-ness of conventional jazz is best done in a group, they’ve invited Marianne Trudel (piano), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor sax) and Jonathan Huard (vibraphone) to join in their demolition. I say demolition, but that’s perhaps a bit strong. Let’s just say they’re redecorating in style, spraying the linoleum and old wallpaper with atonal sprays, offbeat harmonies and inspired impros, but they’re still respectful of the framework and the load-bearing walls aren’t sacrificed in a sacrificial tornado blinded by tabula rasa-style rage. Folio #5 is essentially an album of jazz that is both skilful and judiciously spontaneous, unfolding through the impeccable inspirations of the artists present. Musical and purely sonic ideas are exchanged in the same way as philosophies are exchanged: anchored in the knowledge necessary to hold one’s own, but capable of adding to it in a way that feeds the other, and so on. The workmanship is beautiful, delicate and often rather pointillist in its pictorial and discursive constructions, through which often appear some very beautiful, reassuring and endearing melodic lines .

Contemporary jazz of the highest order, with the spirits of Paul Bley, Debussy, Metheny and Webern hovering freely above.  

Latest 360 Content

Molécule/Orchestre national de Lille; Alexandre Bloch, dir. – Symphonie no 1 ‘’quantique’’

Molécule/Orchestre national de Lille; Alexandre Bloch, dir. – Symphonie no 1 ‘’quantique’’

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Timothy Redmont, dir. – Beyond

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Timothy Redmont, dir. – Beyond

Jaeden Izik-Dzurco, Beyond Impeccable

Jaeden Izik-Dzurco, Beyond Impeccable

Kizaba: Between Ancestrality and Afro-Futurism

Kizaba: Between Ancestrality and Afro-Futurism

Caroline Savoie Succumbs to Her Guilty Pleasures

Caroline Savoie Succumbs to Her Guilty Pleasures

Louise Forestier – Vieille corneille

Louise Forestier – Vieille corneille

Sight + Sound | Fili Gibbons

Sight + Sound | Fili Gibbons

Sight + Sound | A Rain Ritual in Anticipation

Sight + Sound | A Rain Ritual in Anticipation

Opera McGill | Imeneo of Handel through the lens of Patrick Hansen

Opera McGill | Imeneo of Handel through the lens of Patrick Hansen

Mivos Quartet: three times Reich at Bourgie

Mivos Quartet: three times Reich at Bourgie

Caroline Savoie – Rom-Com 

Caroline Savoie – Rom-Com 

Éléonore Lagacé and Brûlez-moi vive: pop on fire

Éléonore Lagacé and Brûlez-moi vive: pop on fire

Gloin – All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)

Gloin – All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)

Pro Musica | Piano prodigy Jaeden Izik-Dzurko: “serious”, “introverted” and… extremely refined

Pro Musica | Piano prodigy Jaeden Izik-Dzurko: “serious”, “introverted” and… extremely refined

Boubé – Voyager

Boubé – Voyager

An Invitation to Travel by Boubé

An Invitation to Travel by Boubé

Ingrid Saint-Pierre – Five Upright Piano Songs

Ingrid Saint-Pierre – Five Upright Piano Songs

SAT | Le Couleur Changes Spectrum, But First…

SAT | Le Couleur Changes Spectrum, But First…

Whispering Worlds – Cosmic Cliffs

Whispering Worlds – Cosmic Cliffs

ContaQt/Yaz Lancaster/Evan Ziporyn – ConneQt IV

ContaQt/Yaz Lancaster/Evan Ziporyn – ConneQt IV

Nick Storring – Mirante

Nick Storring – Mirante

Housewife – Girl Of The Hour

Housewife – Girl Of The Hour

Los Pirañas – Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida

Los Pirañas – Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida

Subscribe to our newsletter